wizened

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

   "Ill-fard, crazy, crack-brained gowk, that she is!" exclaimed the housekeeper. . . "If it hadna been that I am mair than half a gentlewoman by my station, I wad hae tried my ten nails in the wizen'd hide o' her!"

2. 2
   adj

   lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

3. 3
   verb

   simple past and past participle of wizen

Etymology

From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.